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Bryan R Harris
Date:
August 6, 2009 09:10
Subject:
Comma operator
Message ID:
C6A06A9F.35305%Bryan_R_Harris@raytheon.com
A question about the comma operator:
(John and Chas deserve a rest from my questions, if they want it =).
The binary comma operator in scalar context supposedly "evaluates its left
argument, throws that value away, then evaluates its right argument and
returns that value."
So this:
$_ = "dogs and cats";
$r = s/o/i/g, s/s/y/g;
print "$r: $_\n";
... prints "1: digy and caty".
Why doesn't it print a "2" instead of a "1"? It did 2 replaces of s to y...
If I change the second line to read:
$r = s/s/y/g;
... it prints "2: dogy and caty". I thought given the definition above that
the comma operator should do the first replace, then do the second replace
which returns a "2", then assign that 2 to $r. Somehow $r is getting a 1.
If instead I did:
$r = s/o/i/g, s/s/y/g, s/d/cow/g;
... is that still a binary comma operator? It still does all the replaces,
and still comes back with a 1.
And why is:
print $r, "\n";
... not evaluated as a binary comma operator? Because it's in list context?
Then why can't I do this with a list (without the parenthesis)?
@a = 1, 2, 3;
TIA.
- Bryan
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